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LIMITED DELUXE EDITION; hand-numbered 1503 of 1750 copies to limitation page; leather-bound in slipcase, hardcover, octavo (24cm x 15cm), pp. 420 + folding map. English text, edited by Christopher Tolkien, with illustrated by Francis Mosley. Bound in publisher's original quarter moroccan goatskin, smooth spine gilt, pure silk sides, top edge gilt, slipcase fully leather-bound with elaborate gilt decoration on one side and scalloped edges, plain endpapers, half-title, illustrated chapter headings, silk ribbon marker. Printed at The Bath Press on Clan Bookwove Paper. Lettering on slipcase and book spine designed by Calligrapher, John Andrew. Condition: FINE. A new and immaculate copy supplied in the original shipping box.

The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It is the primary source of Middle-earth's ancient history and provides a background to his other works, including 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'